The holy celebration comes nearer. At the latest, when the radio plays the first Christmas songs, and the first shiny Christmas markets open, the time came to think of your own Christmas decoration. The suitable decoration will encourage moody and holy atmosphere. Crib and decoration for the Christmas tree mustn’t be old and kitschy. Find modern and trendy accessories according to your modern lifestyle in the home design shop, together with some classic pieces.

Christmas decoration in the home design shop - an overview of your advantages:

Are you missing decoration for your Christmas tree, are you looking for original crib figures or do you still need creative gifts for Christmas? Then the Connox home design shop is the right shop for you. There are only first-class products of famous designers available in the assortment. We made this selection personally for you. There is a lot of love for details in many Christmas design pieces, others are concentrated on the essence.

The crib by corpus delicti. is a piece of pure design for collectors. The traditional kitsch of Christmas is completely ignored by the Berlin artist Oliver Fabel, who designed the crib figures out of simple, wooden blocks with printed names, who was awarded with the Form prize 2008 for that.

Also discover our decoration for the Christmas tree. We offer hand-decorated Christmas tree baubles made of mouth-blown glass by Alessi, they represent the figures of a traditional crib. Complete your Christmas tree jewellery with the noble Christmas tree tops from Georg Jensen.

Moreover there are numerous original products in the Christmas assortment, which are wonderfully suitable as gifts. Make the ones you love smile with the Hoptimist reindeer Bumble Rudolf. The jumping reindeer is a stylish piece of decoration and it spreads happiness.

When to start decorating for Christmas?

The 1st advent is usually the day we decorate homes. It doesn’t matter if the shelves of super markets are already filled with decoration and Christmas bakery in September. The holy commemoration Sunday of the death for Catholics is the last Sunday before the 1st advent, and religious think of eternal life and memorize the ones they’ve lost. When that day ends, the official time of decorating homes started. The time until the windows and balconies of our neighbours shine comes fast afterwards. Stars, Santa Clauses and colourful light chains fill the air with happiness.

Of course, you can start with moody accessories like scented candles and votive candles long before that date.

How long does Christmas decoration remain?

Traditionally, the Christmas tree and the decoration remain unchanged until the 6th of January, which is the day of the Three Wise Men. Christmas ended officially on that day. Many cities organise a Christmas tree action on the following Saturday. There it is possible to let someone get your tree from your house for a little dotation. That’s the reason for many people to bring the Christmas decoration back into the boxes on the Friday before.

When did Christmas decoration appear for the first time? And why?

The tradition of decoration the Christmas tree started a long time ago. People decorated their homes with winter-green and burning lights for Christmas, in order to keep wild animals away. The army of ghosts should especially fly through the air in the twelve nights between Christmas and the 6th of January. The green branches were thereby lovingly decorated with gold-plated apples, nuts and loops.

In the second half of the 16th century, people started to install decorated trees in their homes at Christmas. The nobler families hanged fruits, coloured paper and jewellery, sweetmeat, nuts and gingerbread in their trees. That’s the reason why the Christmas tree was called sugar tree before. The children were allowed to shake the things off of the tree after Christmas. Burning candles were still placed to keep ghosts away in that time.

The first news about fir trees as Christmas trees comes from the Alsace of the soon 17th century. The tradition was fast spread in Germany and today there are baubles hanging at the trees, instead of apples. And instead of nuts and gingerbread there are stars and other pieces of design – maybe some of the Connox assortment. Be inspired by our selection and find some gifts for Christmas as well.